| 单词 | conversation painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconversation painting conversation painting n. (see 10). conversation painting 10. (In full conversation piece.) A painting representing a group of figures, esp. members of a family, arranged as if in conversation in their customary surroundings. So conversation painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > genre painting > a genre painting > types of conversation1712 bambocciade1816 bodegon1843 anecdote1867 slice of life1895 veduta1906 moyen-age1913 tranche de vie1934 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 474. ⁋3 None should be admitted into this green Conversation-Piece, except he had broke his Collar-bone thrice. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 43 He imitated the manner of Terburgh, a Dutch painter of conversations. 1795 Hull Advertiser 8 Aug. 2/2 Small portraits in oil, at one guinea..Conversation Pieces in proportion. 1846 E. Head in M. Hutton tr. F. T. Kugler Hand-bk. Hist. Painting II. 289 (note) Waagen calls Terburg ‘the creator of conversation-painting’, meaning that particular branch of genre, which bears the same relation to historical painting on the one side, and to the buffooneries of Jan Steen on the other, that ‘genteel comedy’ bears respectively to tragedy and to farce. 1891 Bookman Oct. 29/2 ‘The Finances of the gods’ is a masterpiece..such an interior—one almost fancies Metsu painting a conversation-piece. < as lemmas |
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